New session on every refresh??

no - but now it get's weirder: the sessions no longer "reset" I get a conbsistent session id per borwser. but no the onSessionStart method runs on every request!???

I cross posted this in advanced techniques....

having some difficulty with a remote server running the onSessionStart method on every request. Note: this works perfectly in development.

I have this in my application cfc - note where I am dumping the session variable to screen for debugging. what I have noticed is that the onSessionStart method runs every time, resetting the users login [user can;t log in] it used to give a new session id every request, now that has stopped, but no closer to a solution:

    <!--- session handling --->
    <cffunction name="onSessionStart" output="true" access="public" >
    
        <cflock scope="session" timeout="5" type="Exclusive">
            <cfscript>
                Session.starttime = now();
                session.authenticated = "false";
                session.authattempts = 0;
                Session.shoppingCart = ArrayNew(2);
            </cfscript>
        </cflock>    
        Session start<cfdump var="#session#" /><br />    
    </cffunction>
    
    <cffunction name="onSessionEnd" output="false" access="public" >
    Session end<cfdump var="#session#" /><br />
    </cffunction>
       
    <!---  request handling --->
    <cffunction name="onRequestStart" output="true" access="public" >
    
        <cfargument name="requestname" required=true/>
        request start<cfdump var="#session#" /><br />
        <cfparam name="message" default="" />
        <cfparam name="success" default="" />
        <cfparam name="error" default="" />
        
        <cfif session.authenticated is not session.sessionid >
            <cfinclude template="./login.cfm" />
        </cfif>
    </cffunction>
    
    <cffunction name="onRequest" output="yes" >
        <cfargument name="targetPage" type="String" required="true" />        
            the request<cfdump var="#session#" /> <br />
            <cfif session.authenticated is session.sessionid>
            
            <cfscript>
            if (IsDefined("url.delFromCart")){
                cart_obj = CreateObject("component", "cfc.cart");
                cart_obj.delFromCart(url.delFromCart);
            }
            </cfscript>
            
            <cfsavecontent variable="myContent">
                <cfinclude template="..#arguments.targetPage#" />
            </cfsavecontent>
            
            <cfoutput>#myContent#</cfoutput>
            </cfif>
        
    </cffunction>
    
    <cffunction name="onRequestEnd" output="yes" access="public" >
        request end<cfdump var="#session#" /> <br />
    </cffunction>

Has anyone seen this? must be a server error right?

HELP!!

-sean

nope - the cookie behaviour is correct, still stumped.